Machine

By Elizabeth Bear,

Book cover of Machine: A White Space Novel

Book description

Meet Doctor Jens.

She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen years.

The first part of her job involves jumping out of perfectly good space-ships. The second part requires developing emergency treatments for sick aliens of species she's never seen before.

She loves it.

But her latest emergency…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Machine as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

A space hospital for aliens–what a clever idea.

The second book in Bear’s White Space series, Machine is an entertaining blend of SF adventure and multiple mysteries that sucked me right in. A space hospital begins to experience escalating mishaps after a rescue mission returns with the cryo-suspended crew of a stranded generation ship along with its memory-challenged ship’s mind.

Trust is a key theme in Machine, and you can trust Bear’s capable writer hands to tell a whopping good story.

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